Off Duty Officer Saves Man’s Life
Posted/updated on: May 21, 2012 at 10:45 am
TYLER – An off duty Tyler policeman is being credited with saving a man’s life. It happened around11:15 Saturday night near the intersection of Loop 323 and Tanglewood Drive.
As officer Jason Compton was heading home he saw a group of people standing near the intersection. He found that a 42 year old man had stabbed himself six times in the chest and was lying bleeding in the street. From his first aid kit he used “quick clot,’ a chemically inert material in a mesh bag that speeds coagulation of blood. He held pressure on the man’s chest until EMS arrived. The man was taken to a Tyler hospital for treatment.
